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Hay–Adams Hotel
Hay–Adams Hotel is a location reputed to be haunted in District of Columbia, US. Its reputation comes from reported apparitions, unexplained phenomena and eyewitness accounts gathered over time.
Where is Hay–Adams Hotel?
- Location
- District of Columbia, US
- Type
- Hotel / inn
- Coordinates
- 38.9, -77.037
- Testimonies
- 0
- Last updated
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Why is Hay–Adams Hotel said to be haunted?
The Hay-Adams opened in 1928 on the site of two adjoining mansions once home to statesman John Hay and historian Henry Adams, but its central ghost story predates the hotel itself. In December 1885, Adams's wife, the photographer Marian "Clover" Adams, died by suicide in the house, apparently ingesting the potassium cyanide she used to develop photographs, after a long depression following her father's death. Guests and staff at the hotel built on the site have for decades reported a woman in a long gown seen near the upper floors and on the rooftop terrace facing Lafayette Square and the White House beyond it, with several rooms unofficially associated with sightings. "She's supposed to be one of the more elegant ghosts in Washington," a hotel employee once told a local magazine. Henry Adams never wrote publicly about his wife's death, leaving the Clover Adams story to be told largely through others.
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